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What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies
Self-efficacy is a vital personal characteristic for student success. However, the challenge of cross-cultural comparisons remains as scalar invariance is hard to be satisfied. Also, it is unclear how to contextually understand student self-efficacy in light of cultural values in different countries...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37408968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1177415 |
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author | Jin, Rui Wu, Rongxiu Xia, Yuyan Zhao, Mingren |
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description | Self-efficacy is a vital personal characteristic for student success. However, the challenge of cross-cultural comparisons remains as scalar invariance is hard to be satisfied. Also, it is unclear how to contextually understand student self-efficacy in light of cultural values in different countries. This study implements a novel alignment optimization method to rank the latent means of student self-efficacy of 308,849 students in 11,574 schools across 42 countries and economies that participated in the 2018 Program in International Student Assessment. We then used classification and regression trees to classified countries with differential latent means of student self-efficacy into groups according to Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions theory. The results of the alignment method recovered that Albania, Colombia, and Peru had students with the highest mean self-efficacy, while Slovak Republic, Moscow Region (RUS), and Lebanon had the lowest. Moreover, the CART analysis indicated a low student self-efficacy for countries presenting three features: (1) extremely high power distance; (2) restraint; and (3) collectivism. These findings theoretically highlighted the significance of cultural values in shaping student self-efficacy across countries and practically provided concrete suggestions to educators on which countries to emulate such that student self-efficacy could be promoted and informed educators in secondary education institutes on the international expansion of academic exchanges. |
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spelling | pubmed-103191252023-07-05 What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies Jin, Rui Wu, Rongxiu Xia, Yuyan Zhao, Mingren Front Psychol Psychology Self-efficacy is a vital personal characteristic for student success. However, the challenge of cross-cultural comparisons remains as scalar invariance is hard to be satisfied. Also, it is unclear how to contextually understand student self-efficacy in light of cultural values in different countries. This study implements a novel alignment optimization method to rank the latent means of student self-efficacy of 308,849 students in 11,574 schools across 42 countries and economies that participated in the 2018 Program in International Student Assessment. We then used classification and regression trees to classified countries with differential latent means of student self-efficacy into groups according to Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions theory. The results of the alignment method recovered that Albania, Colombia, and Peru had students with the highest mean self-efficacy, while Slovak Republic, Moscow Region (RUS), and Lebanon had the lowest. Moreover, the CART analysis indicated a low student self-efficacy for countries presenting three features: (1) extremely high power distance; (2) restraint; and (3) collectivism. These findings theoretically highlighted the significance of cultural values in shaping student self-efficacy across countries and practically provided concrete suggestions to educators on which countries to emulate such that student self-efficacy could be promoted and informed educators in secondary education institutes on the international expansion of academic exchanges. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10319125/ /pubmed/37408968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1177415 Text en Copyright © 2023 Jin, Wu, Xia and Zhao. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Jin, Rui Wu, Rongxiu Xia, Yuyan Zhao, Mingren What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title | What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title_full | What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title_fullStr | What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title_full_unstemmed | What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title_short | What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
title_sort | what cultural values determine student self-efficacy? an empirical study for 42 countries and economies |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37408968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1177415 |
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